Abstract
Providing Japanese language education for non-native speakers in Japan is a serious problem to solve, and Japanese society faces a teacher shortage. Discussions concerning the future direction of Japanese language teacher training tend to focus on the importance of teaching practice. However, practices of teacher training done in each institution are not disclosed in detail. Since sentence patterns are infinite, it is considered to be important to provide trainees concepts of teaching applicable to all sentence patterns. This paper reports our development of teaching materials to foster trainees’ abilities to think of appropriate ways for learners to boost their communicative competence based on the process of second language acquisition.
